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El Chapo to be Extradited to the U.S.; U.S. Show of Force Over North Korea; Protests in Germany Over NYE Assaults; Paris Remembers Charlie Hebdo Victims; Death in Syria; GCC Condemns Iranian Attack on Saudi Embassy; Report: World Warming at Alarming Rate; Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Ted Cruz; Powerball Fever. Aired 4-5a ET

Aired January 10, 2016 - 04:00   ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR: (Inaudible) Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo may soon be extradited to the United States. Also ahead, the U.S. (sent a) B-52 bomber over South Korea just days after its northern neighbor says it tested a nuclear weapon. And the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history just got even bigger.

Hello, and welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. We begin in Mexico where one of the world's most dangerous and notorious drug lords is facing extradition to the United States.

Joaquin Guzman, best known as El Chapo, was recaptured on Friday, and is now back behind bars at the maximum security prison from which he escaped back in July. U.S. began requesting the alpo's (ph) extradition in January of last year.. Guzman's lawyer however is fighting to make sure that doesn't happen.

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JUAN PABLO BADILLO, GUZMAN'S LAWYER: Mr. Guzman Loera should not have been extradited to the United States or any other country. What is the reason? Because Mexico has just laws that are detailed in the general constitution of the republic.

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KINKADE: The Mexican navy arrested Guzman in a morning raid on his home turf in Sinaloa state on Friday. These images are from the hotel room where authorities held El Chapo once he was captured.

CNN correspondent Martin Savidge has the very latest from the town where the fugitive had been hiding out.

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This hotel is located on the outskirts of the town, maybe about oh, three or four miles, about six kilometers. When you look at it, it's the perfect place for federal authorities to bring El Chapo. Remember, it's just after they have had a shootout, it's after they've chased him allegedly through the sewer system. Look at this, this is a hotel room that has its own garage space.

Now the federal authorities could have pulled right in here, taken El Chapo out undercover, and walked him right into this room. And if you look, this is the room. It's the room that you see that has been made famous now as a result of the photograph. In fact, just sort of guesstimating, El Chapo would have been sitting right about here, looking off in that direction with a rather sullen look on his face.

There is one thing missing, you might have noticed it in the background, certainly a lot of men did in the photograph. There was another a photo of a woman not wearing a whole lot. It was up in this area. It appears that that has been taken down. Who has it, or why, we don't know.

But we do know that federal authorities had El Chapo in here for about an hour and a half until they could get reinforcements, until they could essentially get their act together to be ready to move him and transport him. Fairly standard room, it's got a toilet, it's got a shower, and it's got a sink and wash-up area.

And it's located right by the highway. So there are a lot of things that make this room almost ideal for the job that they had. And it's hidden away, almost kind of like a fortress. Thanks to that photograph, thanks to the most wanted man in all of Mexico and America, this room is now world-famous. Martin Savidge, CNN, Los Mochis, Mexico.

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KINKADE: And earlier we spoke with Mexican drug war analyst Sylvia Longmire who says the biggest gain for the U.S. from Guzman's capture is information.

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SYLVIA LONGMIRE: Obviously, the biggest benefit is the intelligence value that he has, and ironically enough, that is one of the bigger reasons from what I understand, that the Mexican government didn't want to give him up for extradition when they caught him back in February, 2014.

The Mexican government was somewhat upset that the U.S. government hadn't shared more intelligence from other individuals that had been extradited before. But obviously the importance in value of Guzman as an intelligence asset, I guess you could say, kind of trumps the concerns about Mexico's sovereignty in that regard.

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KINKADE: Now (inaudible) more about El Chapo's time on the run, the notorious drug boss met with U.S. actor Sean Penn before his recapture, and Penn wrote an article for the Rolling Stone magazine. In this cell phone video, Guzman says he did not really have a choice when it came to entering the cartel world.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOAQUIN GUZMAN, MEXICAN DRUG LORD: (interpreted) Is it true what they say, that drugs destroy humanity and bring harm? Well, it's a reality that drugs destroy. Unfortunately, as I said, where I grew up there was no other way, and there still isn't a way to survive, no other way to work in our economy, to be able to make a living.

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KINKADE: And make sure you keep right here on CNN. We will have more from the interview with El Chapo in our next hour of NEWSROOM.

We're now to a show of force over the Korean Peninsula. U.S. air force heavy bombers swept through the skies of the demilitarized zone.

The B-52 planes, B-52 fighter jets made the flight four days after North Korea was said to have detonated a massive explosion that it said was a hydrogen bomb. Will Ripley joins us from Pyongyang. He is the only reporter from a U.S. broadcast in North Korea. But first we turn to Paula Hancocks who is in Seoul. Paula, just talk to us about this flyover. How powerful is this B-52 bomber, and what is the U.S. hoping to achieve with this show of force?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Lynda, the message is certainly very clear. It is a show of force. It is a proof, according to the U.S. Pacific command they are going to stand by their allies in South Korea and in Japan, and also protect the U.S. homeland is what he said today.

So you have the U.S. bomber flanked by South Korean fighter jets. It couldn't be a clearer message to Pyongyang that they will stand by one another and they will show military force if need be, if they feel the need to do that. It is a real sense of deterrent they are trying to put across at this point.

Now the B-52 is a very powerful plane, it can carry conventional and also more modern and nuclear weapons. It has a very long flight range as well. And so it is a particular flight to -- a plane to be choosing by the U.S. military.

Now, we do know that they did exactly the same just two years ago when tensions were very high on the peninsula just after the third nuclear test. Interestingly, though, that time it took about a month before they deployed these bombers. And at that point they said it's part of the ongoing defensive drills that the U.S. and South Korea were carrying out. This time round there are no drills. They've done this unilaterally, this show of force, and it only took four days. So there's something to be read into that, maybe. Lynda?

KINKADE: Yeah, right. Let's just -- stand by, Paula. Let's just bring in Will. Will, just give us a sense of whether you believe that the regime in North Korea actually sat up and took notice as this flyover happened. As Paula mentioned, they did this three -- back in 2013, the last time North Korea tested a nuclear weapon. What do you think -- how do you think the North Korean regime is responding?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well they absolutely took notice. A lot of North Korean military commanders find U.S. bombers especially threatening given the destruction here in Pyongyang during the Korean War when much of the city was flattened. The bombings from the American planes are the reason why for example the Pyongyang metro system is built 360 feet underground so that those stations can double as bomb shelters.

And so last time in 2013 it was actually B-2 stealth bombers that flew from the United States close to the border and hey dropped eight dummy bombs, about 2,000 pounds each. It was infuriating to the North Koreans. They said they were burning with hatred, and they put missiles on standby to attack U.S. bases in the Pacific and in South Korea, and they even aimed long-range missiles toward the mainland United States.

Now eventually that situation de-escalated. There's no official response yet here in Pyongyang. We've been monitoring state media, we spoke with officials here, requested information, haven't heard anything yet. But there undoubtedly will be some kind of response, some kind of rhetoric at the very least, from the regime here in response to this, Lynda.

KINKADE: And, Will, things are pretty tense already in that region. Is it likely, do you think, that this fly-by will escalate those tensions?

RIPLEY: It could very well escalate, but keep in mind it's been a very tense situation really ever since on Wednesday North Korea detonated what they claim is an H-bomb. Even though international experts dispute it was an H-bomb, it was certainly believed to be a nuclear test of some kind strong enough to cause an earthquake.

And then two days later South Korea turned on the propaganda loudspeakers. Interestingly, there hasn't really been much of a response from North Korea to those loudspeaker broadcasts, whereas over the summer, for example, they amassed additional troops at the border. They said that they were putting their troops in a state of -- a semi state of war.

That hasn't happened this time around with the loudspeakers, and so whether the response will differ, whether there will be a very strong response as a result of this fly by from U.S. bombers, or whether we'll continue to see silence, has yet to be determined.

But this action by the United States and South Korea together certainly very provocative, very threatening for the North Korean regime, which really that partnership between the U.S. and South Korea is how they justify developing all these nuclear weapons in the first place.

KINKADE: Absolutely. And just back to you, Paula. China, of course, is a key ally and a key trading partner with North Korea. What sort of pressure can China put on North Korea?

HANCOCKS: Well, most think that it's fairly limited given the fact that the relationship between North Korea and China is nothing like it used to be. When Kim Jong-un's father, the late Kim Jong-Il was in charge, certainly the relationship was far better. He went and visited Beijing. It was a much stronger alliance between the two countries.

It has suffered seriously since Kim Jung-un took control, and by all reports, the Chinese weren't even warned before this nuclear test took place. That is new, that has not happened before. And so certainly it is an expectation that this would anger President Xi Jinping, this embarrasses the administration in China, the fact that they didn't even know this was going to happen.

We have heard from Beijing that they're calling for the denuclearize of the Korean peninsula. They are not condoning this test by any stretch of the imagination, and we imagine, at least the observers imagine, that they will be supporting sanctions within the United Nations as they have in the past. Of course, the question is whether those sanctions have any bite, whether or not the Beijing will be pressuring the United Nations to water down those sanctions.

Because quite frankly Beijing is supporting the North Korean regime, it does trade with the North Korean regime. Without china, it's feasible to believe that North Korea could well collapse. So in that respect, China certainly doesn't want to see the collapse of North Korea, so it will be careful in what it's calling for. But we are expecting a stronger reaction from China than certainly we would have seen when Kim Jong-un's father was in control.

KINKADE: Right, so the situation and the relationship between China and North Korea has deteriorated. We do know that the foreign minister from China reached out to his counterpart in South Korea in the last few days. Describe the relationship between South Korea and China. Has that become any stronger?

HANCOCKS: Well, it's interesting because President Xi Jinping actually chose to come and visit South Korea before he's gone to visit North Korea. That's certainly got to sting in Pyongyang. And he has what appears to be, physically and publicly at least, a very close relationship, or a fairly close relationship with President Park Geun- hye.

They have been photographed number of times, they've met a number of times, and of course the trade between the two is particularly strong. So it would appear publicly at least, of course it's very difficult to know what happens behind closed doors, but it does appear as though that relationship is strong.

We know that there have been phone calls between officials in China and in South Korea since this nuclear test, and they are considered allies when dealing with this kind of issue from North Korea, because neither side wants to see a provocation happen on the peninsula, neither side -- it's in neither side's interest to see tensions heightened.

And so certainly they will be working together to try and figure out a way to diffuse the situation. But of course South Korea does see the North Koreans in a very different way to what china does. Lynda?

KINKADE: Some great analysis there. Paula Hancocks in South Korea and Will Ripley in the North, thank you both very much for joining us.

Well, in about an hour, a ceremony in Paris begins to honor those killed last year in the shootings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.